Orchard House: How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow (Hardcover)

from Fliss88

If you like stories about gardening, food, family gatherings and a dysfunctional mother daughter relationship, this memoir has it all. As is the way with all opposites, Tara Austen Weaver and her feisty mother have never really taken the time to get to know each other. Having just bought a big ol...

from 1Randal

An outstanding book! The author, raised by her somewhat emotionally distant mother, is searching for a more satisfying and meaningful familial relationship. The two come together through the purchase and tending of a large Seattle garden. Kudos to Ms. Weaver for her ability to lay bare her soul a...

from Karen59

A lyrically written memoir about how Tara Austen Weaver grew a garden and in the process came to peace with herself, her family and the tough childhood that left her mother distant and estranged from her daughter. Throughout her adult years, Tara has an on and off again relationship with her moth...

from lauriebrown54

The author's family wasn't close- in fact, they'd decided that they worked better living in different cities. But now Weaver's Seattle based brother has two children and another on the way, and her 70-ish mother decides she needs to move to that city. When they see a very unpromising property- a ...

from wareagle78

I loved this story of a single woman searching to build a warm and nourishing family structure through gardening. When her mother buys a house in Seattle with a huge yard, Tara joins her in restoring the yards into vegetable gardens, orchards, fruit vines, and meadows. I don't usually use cover b...